google search engine architecture- how do so many concurrent users do a search on it

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With millions of users searching for so many things on google, yahoo and so on. How can the server handle so many concurrent searches? I have no clue as to how they made it so scalable. Any insight into their architecture would be welcomed.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '10 at 21:05

There are numerous case studies and talks by Google engineers available online with a little searching. Suffice it to say that Google Search is highly distributed and pushed out datacenters all over the world.

There's a ton of information available over at http://highscalability.com/google-architecture.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '10 at 01:35

As has been mentioned, the networks and architecture of large-scale websites is highly distributed across many data centers and tens of thousands of servers. If you're interested in how this works, I'd recommend a book called Scalable Internet Architectures which describes some of the concepts and theories behind scalable and distributed systems.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 09 '13 at 02:34

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Among other things, they use 100,000's of servers, and MapReduce. Massively parallel.

answered Oct 09 '13 at 02:34

ChuckCottrill

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google search engine architecture- how do so many concurrent users do a search on it

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